Ubercart

Works great!

I'm running RC4.

Which version of uc_inventory_api are you using?

I used 1.5 by Cpill.

I think TR may have a newer version. See post: http://www.ubercart.org/comment/11193/Re-Ryan-said-I-know-CpILL

Cheers.

This is an excellent module. However, it doesn't work as 'smoothly' as it could when using a product that has multiple attributes.

When you create a product, a "Main SKU" is created for the product.
When adding attributes, you can created separate "Attribute SKU" which have their stock levels tracked separately from the "Main SKU".

However, the "Add to Cart" button is only replaced with a "out of Stock" badge when the Main SKU reaches zero stock.
This creates a problem, as the "Attribute SKUs" may be in stock even though the "Main SKU" is not in stock (as a result, the customer is unable to order the "attribute SKUs").

Although you can disable stocking checking of the "Main SKU" to prevent this, the "out of stock" badge will no longer appear when the "attribute SKUs" reach zero stock. In such an instance, the module DOES prevent purchase of the out of stock attributes. However, the customer only sees the out of stock message when they try to add an attribute to cart.

This creates a slight usability issue, as the customer may end up trying to add every attribute to the cart before realizing that none of them are in stock.

Is there anyway to overcome this? I guess the best way would be if the "Main SKU" stock level was automatically adjusted to reflect the total number of "Attribute SKUs" in stock. Is there anyway of doing this?

Sweet Webmasterkai,

if this takes off where the Inventory API stopped, then poeple here are going to be very happy.

I only deal with 1 main product of each, so am not to worried about the last point, but yes, that is an issue. All attribute stoick items should be included.

Will check it out.
Thanks for your contrib!

Wow, brilliant idea! I made the API but didn't think of making a wrapper Manager for the new uc_stock module, but i guess that was the point of the API separated from the actually stock tracking logic. Still I'm amazed that the API is working OK with all the changes that happened to UC up to version 1.0. Good work old man!

Hi.

The module seems only to 'check availability' for products that have attributes.

For products that do not have attributes, and that are out of stock, the button still reads 'add to cart' instead of saying 'not available'.

Not sure if I am missing something?

Any ideas?

Am using uc 1.3

See also http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/132 ...

Fixes availability of button "Add to cart" for product node
when stock level of this product == amount of this product in cart.

You can simply find this strings in uc_inventory_api.module :

And replace it with this one :

This module works great for all my projects. There's just one thing I'm trying to modify without any luck. I have one site that's doing paid classes that use the paid events module. Right now when the classes are full, which is set by the stock levels, it says "Out of stock". That's fine for now, but I would love to figure out how to have it know when it's an event, say something like "Classes are full" instead. I've been trying to do this from the template.php file, but haven't had any luck.

Ya,
I guess when it does the transactions approved which puts the stock level to zero then you would trigger an event like "Stock depleted", for example. This would be at the API level as it interacts with the rest of Ubercart.

I might be revising that module as I intend to integrate with a third party stock tracking system so this will go in my notes. I want to integrate with the 'Acions' in Drupal 6 so it will be for UC2.

The site that has the class sales is a Drupal 5 site, so I hope your new design will work there.

Is there no way to alter this form like you can with other with update_form? Sorry if that makes me sound a bit ignorant.

you can use the strings override module for that - http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides.

is it still planed ??
I'm very interested by this UC feature

Is there any plans to prt this to Ubercart 2.x?

As inventory_api doesnt seem to work on 2.x

I was thinking about it. Might need it for my own client. If it does happen then in the next 2-3 weeks.

@CpILL:

You'd be a legend if you did

CpILL, have you made any progress with the UC2/Drupal6 port? I just ran across your thread and am thinking of going down this path, but don't want to be redundant. Thanks.

nope, ain't started yet. please be my guest

I think I found a problem with this module. When the inventory reaches 0, the out of stock button is not displaying on my site.

As I understand the below function, if a case where $amount=0 and (integer)$stock_level also is 0, it returns true. If 0=0, that's true and with CAN_BUY, we'd want to return false if amount@0=stock@0.

OLD code:

NEW code:

After making this change in my site uc_stockstub.module, the "Add to cart" button is now properly changing to "Out of stock" when inventory reaches 0. I hope this will fix this condition and others will benefit from this information.

This is the fix for comment #41 above:

in uc_inventory_api.module changed line 181
FROM: $form['#sufix'] = '';
TO: $form['#suffix'] = '';
"suffix" was spelled wrong

My site was breaking due to this misspelling. It appeared as if there was no closing div for the form.

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I also would love an out of stock solution for ubercart 2.0.

@autopoietic - see http://drupal.org/project/uc_out_of_stock

For an out of stock inventory management solution that works with ubercart, you might want to try the Yobiz inventory management app. It's currently in trial period so you can evaluate.